Full Throttle: Remastered (PC) - Part 1

Remastered -	Developer:	Double Fine	|	Release Date:	2017	|	Systems:	Win, PS4, PS Vita
Original Game -	Developer:	LucasArts	|	Release Date:	1995	|	Systems:	MS-DOS, Win & Mac OS

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This week on Super Adventures, it's the legendary LucasArts classic, Full Throttle! Remastered!

It seemed like a good time for me to get around to this one, with the original game's 25th anniversary being just around the corner. It came out on April 20th so I'm a month early, but Super Adventures is taking a break during April (and May) so I'm playing it now.

I've played the classic Full Throttle before, in fact I've beaten the game, but I've forgotten almost everything about it since then. I'm fairly sure I used a guide to get through it, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything. I used guides all the time back then, because assumed I wouldn't make it though a game without them.

I do know one thing about the game though: it actually sold pretty well, better than any LucasArts adventure that came before it (but maybe not as well as The Dig), which the company appreciated as it also cost a fortune (though maybe not as much as The Dig). It's possible that all the expensive CD-filling cutscenes were the reason the game was such a big hit for them, though some have theorised it was actually because it had a big explosion on the box art.

Okay, I don't usually do SPOILER warnings on Super Adventures, but I'm going to play through the first third of the game and spoil a big chunk of the puzzles and story, so you might not want to read this if you haven't played through it before.

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Types Of Projects

When I started writing articles on my site, sometimes I had great results, like writing the hexagonal grid guide in 6 weeks, and sometimes I had terrible results, like writing article about curved roads in 5 months. I eventually realized that the difference was that with hexagons, I understood the topic well, but with curved paths, I spent most of the time trying to understand the topic. To make matters worse, because I had a high standard for my articles, I spent too much time trying to polish the article about curved paths, even before I understood it well.

Back in 2013 I decided to create a separate directory /x/YYWW-name/ where I'd put the lower effort and experimental pages, numbered by year and week. For example, 1942-isometric means year 2019, week 42. Over the last few years I've realized I do two different types of projects:

• fixed scope, variable time, usually focused on explaining something
• variable scope, fixed time, usually focused on learning or understanding something

The fixed time articles typically go into /x/. An unexpected benefit of these short unpolished experiments is that sometimes it lets me explore a set of topics that comes together into a larger polished project. The best example of this is my map generation work in 2017–2018. Back in 2017 I had started experimenting with map generation topics:

• 1721-read-painted-map - I played around with the idea of reading a jpg file with a map, and turning it into a game map. This was an "experimentation" project.
• 1721-voronoi-alternative - I took a look at the modified voronoi structure I used in my "polygon map generation" project. That project was an "explanation" project, and this was an "understanding" project.
• 1722-b-rep-triangle-meshes - I had gone to a GDC talk about 3d triangle meshes, and thought this might help me with the 2d map generation projects I wanted to try. This was a "learning" project.
• 1722-delaunay-map-import - I combined the previous projects into something that read in a file and overlaid it on a triangle mesh.
• 1723-procedural-river-growing - I learned how to represent rivers in the mesh data structure.
• 1724-elevation-from-rivers and 1725-procedural-elevation - I had read a paper about generating rivers before mountains, and wanted to try implementing something inspired by it.
• 1728-elevation-control and 1729-generate-details - Instead of reading a jpg file with a map, I wanted to implement some ideas for directly painting a map.
• 1730-terrain-shader-experiments and 1730-terrain-shader-experiments/noisy-hex-rendering.html - I learned a bit about shaders and how I might be able to use them for map rendering.
• 1730-webgl-particles and 1731-wind-patterns - I wanted to experiment with wind simulation, but didn't get very far, and instead just made something that looked neat.
• 1733-sine-wave-terrain - I experimented with sine waves for terrain generation; it didn't work so well.
• 1733-territory-assignment and 1744-territory-outline - I wanted to mark regions of a map.
• 1736-resource-placement - I wanted to place natural resources like iron and gold.
• 1740-map-painter - I wanted to improve my painting code to work directly on the mesh data structure instead of on a pixel grid.
• 1742-webgl-mapgen2 and 1745-rotmg-maps-webgl and 1746-headless-gl - I brought things together and experimented with map rendering.

This structure let me try things quickly, and also abandon things quickly. Those of you who know garbage collection algorithms know that there are two general strategies: throw away the garbage, or keep the non-garbage. In my regular projects I follow the "throw away garbage" strategy, but in this experimental folder I follow the "keep non-garbage" strategy. Things that work I can copy into a new project. Things that fail I leave alone. When I wanted to produce mapgen4 in 2018, I went back through these small projects and picked the parts I could use, and turned that into a new big project.

People ask me if I share links to all the /x/ pages. I don't do this because I found that by not sharing at first, it increases how much I write. I don't start every page worrying about how to explain something, or cross-browser compatibility, or making things work on any machine other than my own. If something works out, I can then fix it up and share it. Many things don't work out, and then I can abandon them quickly. This strategy has been extraordinarily successful at getting me to write more. I started these in 2013, with 7 pages, and then 11 in 2014, 20 in 2015, 24 in 2016, 33 in 2017, 36 in 2018, and 27 in 2019 so far. The downside is that it's so much easier to write the /x/ pages that I am not making many of the regular pages. I'm annoyed with myself for that but I'm just going to have to accept it for now.

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Superbowl!

What's going on everyone?

Today for the #2019gameaday challenge dear ol' dad and I played a fun little game called Halftime Football during the Superbowl. 

We played usually only during commercials and had our quarters match up with the Superbowls quarters which was pretty entertaining. 

In the end dad ended up winning by slaughtering my generic "away team" 45 - 7!

All in all is was a fun evening and I may have to suggest us doing this every other game during the season or something. 

As always, thank you for reading and don't forget to stop and smell the meeples! :)

-Tim

Releasing On Nintendo Switch: Unattainable Dream To Reality

By Thomas Grip, Creative director

This is one of my earliest memories. Eons ago, when I was about 5, my dad took me with him to his work, a department store. He then proceeded to dump me in the electronics department.

Nowadays you can find game test booths everywhere, but back in the day this was definitely not the case. Instead every single item was locked inside a glass cupboard. Usually these cupboards remained locked unless you bought something… but that day was different. Tony, my dad's co-worker, let me try out a game.

As I trembled with the excitement of a 5-year-old boy, he jangled his keys, and took out the showcase version of a grey box called the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Ice Climber for the NES was my first video game experience, and from that moment I was hooked.

Since that watershed moment, Nintendo games have always had a special place in my heart. Super Mario, Zelda, Mega Man, Battle Toads, Blaster Master and many others were all a part of my childhood magic. The plastic feel of the controller, the chunky cartridges, and instant-booting games still evoke fuzzy feelings in me.

Because of these magical childhood memories, and how video games were perceived back in the day, Nintendo has always had a certain mysterious feel to it – like an enchanted factory in a far-away country, creating games through some sort of wizardry.

When I started making games myself, some 20 years back, I never thought the hobby would evolve into anything bigger. It felt highly unlikely that people would want to buy anything I produced. But, eventually, what started as a hobby turned into a job. That felt so surreal. There I was, with my stupid hobby, except it was suddenly a source of income to me. Game development still felt like that enchanted factory, full of people who knew a lot more than me with tech I couldn't possibly afford to have. But it was real, as I came to realize over time.

Yet consoles, and especially Nintendo, retained a very illusory feel. While I released my games on Steam and similar stores, the birthplace of my childhood magic felt far off.
That's why it's so special to announce the following:

AMNESIA: COLLECTION IS NOW OUT ON THE NINTENDO SWITCH

Amnesia: Collection on Nintendo.co.uk

Finally – Frictional Games has made it to a Nintendo console! What had, for most of my life, felt like a distant and far-fetched dream, has now become reality. Sure, it's not shipped on one of those fantastic grey cartridges, nor will it have a Nintendo "seal of quality" slapped on top, but I'll take what I can.

If the 5-year-old me heard about this, he would never believe me.

But this is by no means the end of a journey for me – quite the opposite! It's thrilling to think just how far the company has come, and it makes me super excited for what the future will hold.

A huge thank you to our friends at BlitWorks for making the port possible, and Evolve PR (with special thanks to Ryan!) for the great trailer!